Oh no! One of the effects I do often was on scam school.

Crap now that effect is ruined and every one will no how to do it. Wait but that's also where I learned to do it. And no one I've done it for knows it's secrets. I wonder why that could be? Oh wait, maybe it's cause we have different audiences. I perform for friends, family, coworkers, and random people at parties. Scam Schools audience is 90% amateur magicians and people who don't want to pay for beer.

So I guess the worry would be that if someone were to Google what I did they would get the Scam school video. So I tried that with the latest scam school video;

It was not very effective. As I've said before it's not easy hunting down a method if all you know is the effect it produces. You would really want to know badly in order to not say to hell with it and just go on about your day.

Stolen from weekly magic failure

So I found this in my blog feed today I got it from here

I like this vid. I know I said I'm not against exposure and I'm not but this vid isn't giving the original a hard time for being an exposer. He's giving them a hard time for making such a slack-arsed video. If you're going to make a video where you're going to perform a trick and then reveal how to do the trick. Learn to do the damn trick well first. If you can't do the trick then just skip to the reveal because you suck so much we know how its done from your performance. And for Freya's sake get a real camera and take two steps back from that thing, you can ignore the first one but the second one don't. Being right in front of the camera and doing the trick inches from the lens looks bad and is annoying to the viewer.

Exposure

First let me explain what exposure is to the lay people (lay people is a word used to denote non-magicians) In magic exposure is the telling of secrets and methods of magic to non-magician. Think Masked Magician from FOX. In most magical circles this is the sin of sins. And extreme lengths are gone to in order to avoid exposure. I think this mind set is detrimental to magic. There is only one place where I think it is as horrible as it is viewed, but I'll get to that in a moment.
Where does most exposure happen. It happens on youtube, teenage "magicians" expose the secret to most tricks there. Mostly as a way to boost their own ego. Thats sucks but BFD (big friggin deal) Heres something magicians don't seem to get laypeople don't care how a trick is done. They may watch exposure videos and think well thats interesting but they don't commit it to memory its just not that important to them. I have been known to perform an effect from fox's magic's secrets revealed for people that watched that show with me.
We sat on the same couch and watch it together. I remembered how to do the trick they did not. They are impressed when they see me do the trick and go "How did you do that?"
Harry Blackstone Sr. one of histories greatest magicians used to do a stage show, out side the theater were posters exposing the very tricks he did. The crowds were still thrilled and amazed and wondered how he did it.

IT IS THE JOB OF THE PERFORMER TO CREATE IN THE MIND OF HIS SPECTATOR THE BELIEF THAT REGARDLESS OF ANY INTELLECTUAL FACT WHAT THEY ARE SEEING COULD ONLY BE DONE BY MAGIC.

I'm an amateur and I all ready figured that one out. If your spectators keep trying to call you out and expose you and your sleights are good, then learn a some self working tricks and focus on presentation and audience management

Now for the inexcusable exposure. Smart phones are everywhere and at a certain point your audience get too big to manage, like at a club. In this kind of setting there may be a person that just doesn't wanna enjoy the performance and has to answer his inner call to be a dick and use his phone to search out the secrets.. This annoys me not because its exposure but because the only person getting hurt is the other spectators the magician is still gonna get paid either way. But the audience is out a magical experience.

That said I will do my best to avoid exposing currently licensed and copyrited material but I make no such promise about anything else.